Back-Slapping Bush Revels in Carrier Landing
Here are the snarky parts:
The swaggering commander-in-chief
experienced a stomach wrenching aircraft carrier landing then roamed the huge vessel checking out all of the toys.
His visit here to the ship about 30 miles out in the Pacific off the California coast was basically a victory lap for the president after the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
A pilot for the Texas Air National Guard who never saw combat during the Vietnam War, Bush said he took the joystick for about a third of the flight over from the mainland aboard an S-3B Viking plane typically used for airborne refueling.
Its tailhook caught the fourth, last cable available to halt the plane. If it had not caught this wire, pilot John Lussier would have had to rev up power and fly away to circle around for another try.
Looking quite proud of himself, Bush climbed down wearing a green flight suit and holding his helmet under his arm.
He swaggered into a crowd of dozens of combat pilots who had flown missions in Iraq and were about to take off in their F-18 Hornets for home.
"Really exciting," Bush said of the experience. "I miss flying, I can tell you that."
What did he do while flying it? "Just steered it," he said.
The dramatic arrival earned Bush live coverage on the cable television networks
and it provided some patriotic flag-waving images that might serve in his reelection campaign. 
Bush was on board only a little while before he had exchanged his flight suit for a protective life vest emblazoned with "commander-in-chief" on the back and a helmet with large ear protectors and goggles.
In this outfit he roamed the deck, slapping the backs of the flight crew members, posing for pictures and generally hamming it up.
Then he was out of that get-up and up on the navigation deck watching one of the last F-18s fire up its engines and roar down the runway and off the ship, leaving behind a smoking trail on the deck.
hehehe, I was just going to post the sarcastic parts, practically ended up with the whole article. Tell me, is Yahoo usually this caustic towards Bush, or was the whole Bushamerica show just too repulsive for them also?
